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MHC to Host Genocide Expert Posted: October 10, 2007 Updated: October 8, 2007 - Listen to the audio Dr. Gerald Caplan, a leading Canadian authority on genocide and genocide prevention, will be at Mount Holyoke November 6-8 as the 2007 Carol Hoffmann Collins Global Scholar-in-Residence at the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives. Caplan's interactions with members of the College and larger communities will focus on genocide and genocide prevention and on the development challenges of Africa. Caplan is author of the 300-page report Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide, for the International Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. He also founded and helped coordinate a major international initiative called Remembering Rwanda: The Rwanda Genocide 10th Anniversary Memorial Project. In his major public lecture at Mount Holyoke, "Genocide Prevention and the International Community: A Fable for our Time?," Caplan will speak about why genocides happen and why those with the capacity to prevent them fail to do so. The lecture will take place on November 7 at 7:30 pm in Gamble Auditorium and is free and open to the public. With a Ph.D. in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Caplan has been involved with the challenges of African development for a long time. He is a senior advisor to the United Nations and the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He serves as the volunteer chair of the International Advisory Board for the University of Toronto Centre for International Health's HIV/AIDS Initiative for Africa. Caplan has just completed a report for the Africa Union and UNICEF on the state of Africa's children, and his book The Betrayal of Africa is coming out in early 2008. The fourth annual scholar-in-residence hosted by the McCulloch Center, Caplan will engage the community in dialogue in a variety of settings, from lectures to classes to informal gatherings. He will meet with students in six classes, conduct a faculty seminar on the role of the U.S. in African development, and meet with doctors and midwives from Baystate Hospital in Springfield to discuss public health issues in Africa. Previous scholars-in-residence include Rami Khouri, executive editor of the Beirut Star; Gro Brundtland, former director general of the World Health Organization and three-time prime minister of Norway; and Guy Standing, an expert on labor and globalization. Related Link: McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives This notice expired on November 7, 2007.
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